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The Big Sky series began a couple of years ago, and we’re now bringing it to console. It’s a lightning-fast, randomly-generated game that adapts to how you play – it’s never the same game twice!

You pilot a spaceship that’s flying straight into an alien armada. The further you progress, the harder it gets, with giant bosses, streams of enemies and special things we call ‘Events’. Your ship is equipped with a drill that lets you smash through planets and meteors. It’s less about memorisation and more about reactions and adapting!

Game Modes

There are a whole slew of game modes that you’ll be unlocking down the line. You’ll start off with Classic Mode – the real bones of the game. Here you’ll start off with a paltry little spaceship that can barely dent a tractor, let alone alien spacecraft.

Destroying enemies will cause them to drop little starbits which are then spent on upgrading your ship. Pretty soon you’ll have the most splendid spaceship this side of Jupiter. But the stronger your ship gets and the longer you last, the tougher the bad guys will be!

You’ll get access to other modes such as Nightmare – the complete opposite of a walk in the park. Then there’s Pacifism, where your laser cannons have been jammed with flowers. And we’ve got a new endurance-style mode for Infinity too!

Multiplayer Modes

We’re utilising unique aspects of the PS3 and PS Vita for our multiplayer modes. On the PS3 you’re able to play with up to three friends (or enemies, frenemies or relatives). It’s chaotic fun – you can either help each other out by sticking together to power-up each other’s weapons, or compete to get the most points.

On the PS Vita we have an asynchronous multiplayer mode, where you can challenge PSN friends (or randoms!) to take on your high scores in a turn-by-turn series of matches. We had a lot of fun playing this mode during development!

Events

Finally, we have these things called Events. Now, events are crazy, gameplay-shifting happenings that occur every so often, and when you get very good some will happen at the same time!

My personal favourite is the Black Hole event. I won’t spoil what happens, but it would make for a great B-movie plot. But there’s also the Worm Hole event, where you’ll tear through the fabric of space in a swirling vortex. And look out for Hell Cascade, where bad guys get bored of not shooting lasers at you and decide to shoot lasers at you!

In conclusion, there’s a lot to see and do in Big Sky Infinity, from the screen-sized, ever-changing bosses, to the gameplay-altering events, to the cheeky cockney narrator.

We hope to see you on the score boards when the game launches tomorrow, priced at £7.99/€9.99. And remember, PS Plus members receive Big Sky Infinity as part of their Instant Game Collection!

This looks awesome, heard about it a while ago and can’t wait to download it tomorrow. The fact that its a Plus game is great news, reckon it’ll get played on my Vita mostly but a duel download is a great idea.

not mi ting after i buy sine morai very disepointed when al lives up u need to restart from 0i understend u have some lives on every level but when u 0 levelu restart u latest mape u failt .so wil not buy , sory .

I love twin stick shooters, scrolling shooters, retro styling and free PS Plus games so this is already ticking a lot of boxes but the info here manages to make it sound even better.Is the PS3 multiplayer online, offline or both?

“Posted on 11 December, 2012 at 4:45 pm by James WhiteheadThe Vita has a special turn-based multiplayer mode where you compete for highscores, or number of enemy kills or starbits. It can get quite tense and works really well on the Vita”

Why is this done to the Vita game? I mean… It works, no doubt. It works with Motorstorm RC too. But I’d rather have full online MP support like the consoles get it. PSVita can do this too, PSN works great on it.

“Posted on 11 December, 2012 at 5:11 pm by monolietnot mi ting after i buy sine morai very disepointed when al lives up u need to restart from 0i understend u have some lives on every level but when u 0 levelu restart u latest mape u failt .so wil not buy , sory .”

That is what real gaming was back in the days. Hard. These days they’re made too easy, savepoints everywhere, endless restarts of life. I’d say more games should be like this again. At last a challenge.

Well, i can say one thing about the game… I’m glad i didn’t pay for it, too much going on in too many different colors I can get up to the first boss… then If i am lucky can survive a bit when it goes into the hyper speed hope for the best as we throw you into walls of lasers then just to screw your eyes over we are going to throw in a random effect so you cant see a single thing. Ok, don’t worry because you have a super powerful laser that only actually fires at some random time that you have no way to determine or plan but just to be super safe we have thrown in a power that requires you to collide with enemies but we don’t give you any sort of warning as to when it ends.

So… play this game is you are the luckiest person in the world… you might get somewhere.

Seems like you were trying to make a bullet hell game with no idea of how a bullet hell game works.

Store won’t let me download the PS3 version – I am a plus member, downloaded for Vita first and now if I try to download the PS3 version it shows the correct version until the download screen, then changes it to the Vita version. Any way around this?